Word: blueprint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Houghteling is careful to point out that HLU has no blueprint for society--its aim is specific action on specific issues. Within the year, this group has done such things as collect signatures for a pro-Marshall Plan petition, organized the New England youth-division of the National Council Against Conscription, and sponsored several discussion panels on issues of the day. It has also been active on local issues--the Club 100, aid to striking unions, and testimony on several recent state bills in conjunction with the Civil Liberties Union...
There were two plans for not only Missouri River flood control, but for navigation, irrigation, and electric power as well. One, the Pick-Sloan plan of the Army engineers and the U. S. Reclamation Bureau, was already in the blueprint stage, with some construction under way. The other, a Missouri Valley Authority following the general pattern of the TVA, was only on paper. The difference between them was that the Pick-Sloan plan was an amalgam of Federal and State agencies, and of compromises between proponents of irrigation and navigation, while the MVA would be an independent regional agency treating...
Last January the British Foreign Office released a hair-raising document called "Protocol M" (TIME, Jan. 26). It purported to be a Cominform blueprint for a Communist-led general strike in the Ruhr aimed at crippling coal production and hampering the Marshall Plan. Its deadline for action was March...
...conflict...An expanding economy, increased productivity, and widespread and full distribution of goods are essential if we are to raise the real income of our people to levels hitherto undreamed . . . Communism was not conceived as an answer to this problem. Communism is essentially a political idea, not a scientific blueprint for a machine...
When the House was in its blueprint stages, the late President Lowell sat down with University architects Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch, and Abbot, told them he wanted the windows built in the pattern they now occupy, and he left the hapless four to fit the rooms to the window design. This accounts for Lowell's small, irregular rooms...